Superinfection of five Wolbachia in the alnus ambrosia beetle, Xylosandrus germanus (Blandford) (Coleoptera: Curuculionidae)

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 231-239

  Kawasaki, Y ^a   Ito, M ^a   Miura, K ^b,c   Kajimura, H ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR WESTERN REGION   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endosymbiotic bacteria; Infection polymorphism; Multilocus sequence typing method; Multiple infections; Scolytinae

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ALLELE; BACTERIUM; BEETLE; CLADISTICS; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENOME; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BEETLE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; WOLBACHIA;

ALNUS; AMBROSIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; PLATYPODINI; SCOLYTINAE; WOLBACHIA; XYLOSANDRUS GERMANUS;

EID: 77951139504     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: 14752670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S000748530999023X     Document Type: Article

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